Hi On Saturday 7 November 2009 at 7:34:15 PM, in <mid:[email protected]>, Ian A. White wrote:
> G'day MAU, > On Friday, November 6, 2009, at 2:21:57 AM, you (MAU) > wrote: M>> Download SIW (freeware) from http://www.gtopala.com/ M>> and use the Eureka! Tool to reveal passwords. M>> Aside of that, SIW is a very good System Information M>> software for Windows. > Interesting utility, however I find it a little > disturbing how easily a password can be revealed, > particularly as there is a standalone version of the > utility that does not need to be installed and can be > run from a USB stick. It only goes to reinforce what we have all heard many times about password protection in Windows being a rudimentary protection that will defeat only the casual snooper. > I know that utilities like this are designed to save > some users from themselves, but it is a touch > dangerous as no one knows who will actually end up > using it and for what. Presumably they will use it to reveal *somebody's* passwords (-; > Personally, if someone cannot remember their password, > then that is their tough luck. There are many password > managers (some are even free). Yes, a post-it note stuck to your monitor is in widespread use for this purpose and costs very little. (-; > After all, there is no excuse > given the low cost of external hard drives. Is laziness not an excuse, then? -- Best regards MFPA I'll tell you what's the matter! This parrot is dead! Using The Bat! v4.0.38 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 ________________________________________________ Current version is 4.2.10.0 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
